Well, except for a front sight I have completed a trial assembly of my .33-40 high-wall.  Where a couple of my previous efforts have had parts from a couple of different "donor" rifles, this one makes Frankenstein's monster look like Prince Charming.  Although all of the parts except maybe a pin or screw here and there are original Winchester parts, I really robbed the "graveyard" for them to complete this project.  Other than the lack of metal finish, it doesn't look half bad.  I stuck an old Lyman tang sight on it and will put a globe on the front before I take it out and try to shoot it.  I have a couple of .338 moulds to try and some .38-55 brass that has already been sized down to .32, so I will probably try to blow some of that out to chamber size by the simple expedient of fire forming.  I love the smell of Cream of Wheat in the morning (if I don't have to EAT IT!)  I'm wondering how wise it was to use the small Swiss buttplate I had been saving...I'm assuming however that the recoil will not be much if any worse than my .32-40...in fact, I will probably use similar starting loads.  Does anybody out there have a good .33-40 load for a 200-ish gr. bullet over 4759?  I know what I put in my original .32-40 behind a 31959 bullet that weighs 200 gr, so that should be a fairly good starting point, I guess.  All for now, the adventure continues!

Regards, 
Green Frog

Green one,
Is this what you are shooting? Does anybody out there have a good .33-40 load for a 200-ish gr. bullet over 4759? 
A 200 grain bullet in the .33 would be very light so I assume it is on the heavy-ish side of 200.
In my Ross rifled High Wall 33-40 I use 17 to 19 grains of 4759 with a Zika 234 grain bullet. The rifle shoots well with any charge in that range the only difference being the impact goes up with the charge. The chamber on my rifle is a standard Winchester 32-40 with the barrel rerifled to .338 with a 1:16 twist. It would be easyer to make up a seater for a 33-47 as the bullet could be put into a case but I don't want to change it.
See you at Etna Green in September.
fallingblock